Apple iphone 5 - iPhone 5 News Blog lead columnist Charles Moore gives you a great tip on how to leverage your old iPhone for a new, white iPhone 4 — while you wait for the iPhone 5!
Cool new products and version upgrades can make it tough to stick with a strict hardware replacement roadmap. For example, over the past 19 years I’ve attempted to keep my primary computer system upgrades spread out by at lest three years, but as often as not have failed to achieve that arbitrary target, and very seldom exceeded it. And the world of smartphones and other Steve Jobsian “post-computer era” devices is evolving faster than the PC sector does if anything (notwithstanding probable delays in getting the iPhone 5 to market. Service contract terms of course add another level of complexity to the mix.
Right now, the latest and greatest for iPhone aficionados is the white iPhone 4. I personally prefer white devices to black as a rule, and think that both the white iPhone and white iPad are the coolest lookers respectively. Given Apple’s ten-month lag in getting a white version of the iPhone 4 to market, I expect that even most users who share my partiality for white aren’t sorry they initially went with a black model, but especially with iPhone 5 apparently still four or five months off, are wishing there was a way to get a white iPhone now.
The harsh reality is that for most existing iPhone users, $499 is a high price to pay for a case color switch, but NextWorth, (www.NextWorth.com), specializing in consumer electronics upgrades and trade-ins, offers a potential solution to making such an upgrade more affordable by offering attractive trade-in values for black iPhone 4 models to help subsidize the cost of upgrading to a new white one. Using a trade-in value index, NextWorth can show the current NextWorth trade-in value as a percentage of the original retail value of a device.
Current trade-in values on NextWorth for iPhones in "Like New" condition include:
AT&T iPhone 4 16GB – $260
AT&T iPhone 4 32GB – $280
Verizon iPhone 4 16GB – $200
Verizon iPhone 4 32GB – $230
Among several ways it provides to upgrade, NextWorth is partnered with Target stores nationwide to offer an in-store trade-in option. At nearly 900 Target stores nationwide (with almost 500 new stores being added this summer), consumers either receive credit toward a purchase, or a prepaid Target card for the value of the trade-in. At NextWorth.com, customers have the choice of cash or a gift card when they trade in. NextWorth offers FREE, fully-insured UPS shipping service to all online customers. You can check www.Target.NextWorth.com to find the store location nearest you.
At NextWorth.com, customers have the choice of cash or a gift card when they trade in. NextWorth offers free, fully-insured UPS shipping service to online customers. Not only iPhones, but full range of Apple igadgets including iPads, as well as other branded phones and mobile electronics are accepted for trade-in, including cameras, e-readers, video games and DVDs.
To make use of NextWorth’s in-store programs, just visit any participating retail store with your old device and after executing a transaction you can walk out with the shiny new one you’ve been eying. The sales associate or customer service representative will value your device on the spot and give you a gift card or store credit.
There’s also an online alternative if one of the hundreds of participating retail stores isn’t handy, Essentially, you can get a quote online and a check, Paypal, gift card or e-gift card will be mailed to you.
Here’s how the online procedure works.
1. Start by finding your product and get an instant quote. (You can simply type the name of your item in the search box at the top of every page.) Type keywords slowly. The search results will be automatically refined to help you find what you’re looking for.
2. Print the pre-paid shipping label at the end of the transaction.
3. Carefully pack the items and apply the pre-paid shipping label to your package. Give it to your local postal carrier or drop it by a post office.
4. Once NextWorth receives the item, they will make sure that the item is in the condition you’ve described.
5. It takes approximately ten business days, from when NextWorth receives your trade-in item for inspection to when your payment is mailed out, so if you’re in a hurry for that white iPhone, the in-store option is definitely the path to pursue.For more information, visit:
http://www.nextworth.com/trade_in/
Or call NextWorth Customer Service at:
1 888 969 4763 (9-5 EST)
